From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29346 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Quickly Migrating ~/Mail/* to gnus nnfolder Date: 01 Mar 2000 19:20:19 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <6eog8yutpz.fsf@sloth.netpliance.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035166030 2233 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:07:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:07:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 724CFD051E for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 22:24:08 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAB26158; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 21:21:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 01 Mar 2000 21:20:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA05533 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 21:20:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D21CD051E for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 22:20:27 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 21803 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2000 03:26:56 -0000 Original-Received: from adsl-117-113.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (root@209.144.117.113) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 2 Mar 2000 03:26:56 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA01158; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:20:19 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Chris Richards's message of "01 Mar 2000 18:00:08 -0600" Original-Lines: 57 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) Emacs/20.5 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29346 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29346 Chris Richards writes: > Howdy. > > Is there a suggested way to migrate mbox format files under ~/Mail/ > into gnus? I have 61 "groups" in 14 (sub-)directories. Respooling is one good way ( `B r' in Summary) The rest depends on what kind of groups you want. It would involve setting the secondary select method to "SOMEBACKEND" like nnml nnfolder nnmh etc. You can access all your mail groups with "nneething" in one stroke by creating an "nneething" group at address ~/Mail. You will see how it works like emacs in dired mode (sort of) > > For example: > > ~/Mail/humour > ~/Mail/people/bob > ~/Mail/people/jane > ~/Mail/work/project1/defects > > into > > nnfolder:humour > nnfolder:people.bob > nnfolder:people.jane > nnfolder:work.project1.defects Set your split rules to send the messages to the proper nnfolder groups then process mark each message in a group and `respool' `M P a' in summary buffer will process mark all visible messages. Only use the above method if you feel you know enough gnus. Otherwise the method you lay out below (with a few provisos) should work, just a little more time consuming. > > I tried to manually do one by creating a nndoc group and a nnfolder > group. The doc group was the old mbox file. I moved the messages and > tried to kill the nndoc group. It sorta of went away... replaced by > group 'nil' ;) That method should work with no hitches. However nndoc does not supprt `B m' (move) so use `B c' copy after process marking all messages. To kill an nndoc group should only require a simple `C-k'. No muss no fuss, just gone. > This is way annoying. Should I just leave them as nndoc groups? Can > I split into them later? No, you can't split into them. A simple `C-k' should remove any nndoc group.